El Paso, Texas-‘Why is everybody wearing blue today?’ it’s Wear Blue Day, a national effort to bring awareness to the month of April. This month and throughout the year, ABC-7 encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making our community a better place for children and families. With child abuse being such
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis was named Fox Sports’ lead baseball play-by-play announcer. He takes over for Joe Buck, who left Fox for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” Buck was Fox’s lead baseball announcer since the network started televising games in 1996, calling 24 World Series and 22 All-Star
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The mayor of Kramatorsk says that a Russian missile strike on a train station full of evacuees killed at least 30 people and wounded 100 more, but these are just preliminary numbers. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour reports.
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Yemen’s exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi ceded power to a presidential council on Thursday in a shock move supported by Hadi’s main backer Saudi Arabia. Both the president, who had been in power for a decade, and his vice president, who was also removed, were fiercely opposed by the Iran-backed Houthi
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El gobierno de Biden sancionó este miércoles a las hijas del presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, además de imponer sanciones a dos de los mayores bancos rusos. La intensificación de las sanciones a Rusia da al mundo la ilusión de que se está actuando realmente en Ucrania, pero ¿tendrán algún
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN Pennsylvania’s television viewers have been inundated with attack ads in the state’s Republican primary for the US Senate. And some of those attack ads have featured misleading claims. The fiercest ad battle has been between the primary’s two leading candidates and outside groups targeting them: Mehmet Oz, a surgeon and former
Continue Reading CNN By Daniel Dale, CNN Pennsylvania’s television viewers have been inundated with attack ads in the state’s Republican primary for the US Senate. And some of those attack ads have featured misleading claims. The fiercest ad battle has been between the primary’s two leading candidates and outside groups targeting them: Mehmet Oz, a surgeon and
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN The very first FIFA World Cup final, contested by Uruguay and Argentina in 1930, started with a disagreement: Who would supply the ball? Both teams wanted to, because they were used to playing with their own equipment and didn’t trust one another. In the end, a compromise was reached: The first half
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is expelling eight Russian diplomats and trade officials and will phase out imports of Russian coal and oil. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Moscow must be held accountable for “war crimes” in Ukraine. He says Japan will also ban imports of Russian lumber, vodka and other
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By CNN Sports staff Shohei Ohtani had a bittersweet MLB Opening Day. The 27-year-old Ohtani made history on Thursday as he became the first player in the history of the American and National Leagues to throw his team’s first pitch of the season and face his team’s first pitch as a hitter. However the Japanese
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By Katia Hetter, CNN More people can now get second Covid-19 booster shots after federal health officials announced they are allowing a broader group to get fourth doses of the two messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Adults 50 and older, who received three previous mRNA doses, can get a second booster
Continue Reading By Uliana Pavlova, Anna Chernova and Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Nobel Peace Prize-winning newspaper editor says he was attacked with red paint while traveling on a train in Russia. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, said he was attacked on Thursday during a train ride from Moscow to the city
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By Chris Liakos and Anna Cooban, CNN Business Russian metals company Rusal has called for an investigation into the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Rusal Chairman Bernard Zonneveld said in a statement that recent reports of atrocities from the town, which was occupied by Russian troops for a
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – El Paso police are investigating a stabbing that sent one person to the hospital with life-threatening injuries late Thursday night. This happened just after 11 p.m. on the 3100 block of Jefferson Ave. in central El Paso. Police have not released any information about the victim, nor have they said
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has received a 3.6 billion euro payment out of its allotted 30.5 billion from the European Union’s pandemic recovery fund. The announcement was made Friday by European Commission’s executive vice president in a video call with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The European recovery and resilience fund provides vital relief
Continue Reading Cold air settles across the east for the weekend after a week of severe storms brought rain, wind, hail, and tornadoes. Meanwhile, California continues to see hot temperatures. CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis has the forecast.
Continue Reading CNN’s Clarissa Ward speaks to survivors and tours the destruction left behind by Russian forces in Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Continue Reading Applause rings out in the Senate chamber after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Spring break vacations are supposed to be fun, relaxing, and carefree. But unfortunately, many Americans during this peak travel season are encountering issues reaching their destinations due to severe weather. On the East Coast, thunderstorms pushed back thousands of flights yesterday and more delays are expected going into the weekend. Here’s
Continue Reading By Jack Bantock, CNN No trophy will be lifted at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, but when the dust settles on this Premier League season, April 10 may well be remembered as its defining date. On paper, Manchester City’s impending showdown with Liverpool is no more significant than any other ‘title-deciding’ fixture between the two
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline across the United States, health leaders warn that the crisis is not over — especially in the Black community. A new report details the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Black Americans and calls for “the most precise data” on
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business A deadly and highly infectious avian flu is forcing US farmers to kill millions of egg-laying hens, reducing the country’s egg supply and driving up prices. On Thursday, retailers paid between $2.80 and $2.89 for a dozen large grade A white eggs in the Midwest, according to the USDA’s daily
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CNN By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business A deadly and highly infectious avian flu is forcing US farmers to kill millions of egg-laying hens, reducing the country’s egg supply and driving up prices. On Thursday, retailers paid between $2.80 and $2.89 for a dozen large grade A white eggs in the Midwest, according to the USDA’s
Continue Reading CNN By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau A pet dog was beaten to death by a health worker in Shanghai in an incident that sparked fury online, offering a glimpse into the growing frustrations of locked-down residents in China’s Covid-19 hotspot. A video of the beating at a residential compound in the Pudong district
Continue Reading Verónica Ojeda (CNN) — Un video de un perro golpeado hasta la muerte por trabajadores de prevención de covid-19 en Pudong, Shanghái, se hizo viral este miércoles en la red social china Weibo. El video, grabado por un residente en un complejo turístico llamado Xinghai Jiayuan, muestra a un trabajador de prevención de covid-19 golpeando
Continue Reading By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan business leaders are calling for an end to political instability amid public demands for the president to resign over alleged economic mismanagement, warning that failure to do so would lead to economic catastrophe. Leaders from 23 business associations say they
Continue Reading Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN It’s not every day that you spot a cruise ship for sale on Craigslist. So Chris Willson was immediately intrigued when he stumbled across a 293-foot vessel listed on the classified advertisements website back in 2008. The retired “pocket” cruise ship, built in Germany, was moored in the California Delta at the
Continue Reading By Olga Voitovych and Nathan Hodge, CNN At least 50 people, including five children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was being used by civilians trying to flee the fighting, Ukrainian officials said Friday. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the regional military
Continue Reading By Jack Bantock, CNN Nikola Jokic became the first player in NBA history to register 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 500 assists in a single season as a 122-109 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies saw the Denver Nuggets secure a playoff spot on Thursday. As far as good days at the office go, they don’t
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The United Nations says prices for world food commodities like grains and vegetable oils have reached their highest levels ever because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday that its Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for
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